Estimate of State General Fund Revenue and Operating Deficit
Thank you for your continuing support of the Coalition for Adequate School Housing (CASH). One of our goals is to provide you with accurate budget and education policy information throughout this pandemic.
Message from the Chair – Tough Times Don’t Last – Tough People Do!
As with every aspect of American life, COVID-19 has changed the game for the education community, including the school facilities and maintenance sector. California schools are confronted with questions on procedures and processes about cleaning and disinfecting to ensure learning environments are clean, safe and healthy. The opportunities and challenges presented by the necessity of distance learning, providing food to under-served students who might not otherwise have access to meals, and significant State funding challenges on the horizon. CASH was born in conflict, and we are meeting these challenges as we always do through education and advocacy.
Message from the Chair – Proposition 13: The Public Preschool, K-12, and College Health and Safety Bond Act of 2020
Proposition 13: The 2020 State School Bond
AB 48 (O’Donnell) approved by the Legislature and signed by the Governor, has now become Proposition 13 and will appear on the March 3, 2020 California Primary Ballot. Proposition 13 continues the School Facility Program (SFP) with new resources and important programmatic improvements. CASH is urging support for Proposition 13. We need your assistance to help spread the message that approval of Proposition 13 is critical for California’s students, teachers, California’s economy, and for building, renovating and maintaining schools to ensure that they are clean, safe and healthy.
CASH Call to Action: Tell the Governor to Sign SB 268
We need your help to urge Governor Newsom to sign SB 268 (Wiener). SB 268 addresses the issues created by AB 195 (Obernolte, 2017), which requires local bonds and other tax measures to include problematic information on the ballot label.
We are asking our CASH members, including school districts and associates, to send a letter to the Governor requesting his signature on SB 268. The bill was passed by the Legislature on Friday, September 13, and the Governor has until October 13 to sign or veto the bill.
Time is of the essence; please submit your letters as soon as possible!
Click here for a template letter.
Keeping Our Eye on the Ball
In my inaugural Message from the Chair, I thanked Don Ulrich for his leadership as the outgoing CASH Chair and formally introduced myself to you. I spoke of having ‘high hopes’ for faster implementation of State bond funds for California schools, but ‘hope’ is not a strategy. My primary focus as Chair of the CASH Board: Full implementation of Proposition 51 to fund previously approved School Facility Program (SFP) projects and support for a 2020 bond as a bridge to a sustainable capital funding system to address current and future needs. In this Message, I will provide updates to our membership on these foundational issues for the organization.